THEY WILL TRY THAT HE STAYS IN ITALY
Barça rules out the return of Samuel Umtiti in 2023
Published:9/10/2022 - 20:23h
Updated:9/10/2022 - 20:23h
As confirmed by Joan Laporta, FC Barcelona does not have Samuel Umtiti after his loan at US Lecce. The Catalans will try to convert the agreement into a permanent one
The FC Barcelona confirmed in the end of the market of signings estival the cession of Samuel Umtiti to the US Lecce by the season 2022-2023. In the agreement, the Barcelona club engaged to pay the index card of the central of 28 years, whereas the recently risen team to the Series To firmba 'compensate' economically to the culés with a percentage by party contested.
The cession of the champion of the World in 2018 was simple, without option to purchase after 30 June 2023, by what in theory would have to return to the Spotify Camp Nou of face to the next season. Nevertheless, as it has confirmed the president culé Joan Laporta in the Assembly of Partners and Compromisarios of this Sunday, from the club descartan his return and expect to convert the loan in a permanent agreement.
Laporta Has said, in concrete, that "Umtiti is a footballer that has given us a lot of successes and that has been champion of the world. Has quality and do not have at all that say like person. In his case there is a bit of fatalidad, because there are players that have had the same injury and are playing without problems after having adopted the same decision that Umtiti to subject to a conservative treatment".
On his contractual situation, left clear that the Barça bets for looking for the best solution, that would be his permanence in the picture of Apulia: "His case has a solution complicated. For the moment it is yielded in the Lecce, but the will is to find the best solution for the player without damage for the entity", sentenced the maximum Barcelona mandator in the Assembly.
Umtiti, unobserved in Apulia
Although it is true that hardly are in the beginning of season and remains an infinity of parties for contesting , the Barça will have to look closely the situation of Umtiti, because for the moment there are not sufficient merits so that the Lecce arrive to pose that his agreement was permanent. In fact, the born in Yaundé still has not debuted under the orders of Marco Baroni in the eight parties that has contested the team.
Before, it had informed that his fault of action was due to a plan that contrived when it concretised his cession from the Barcelona club, in the straight final of the market of signings estival. The team of the Series To wanted to that the central was in optical physical conditions and thus it followed a special plan during the last weeks.
